There is no such thing as a lion on Altea - at least, no such real thing.
There is, however, a creature called a lion (in rough English translation, of course) that is a fearsome yet benevolent animal of fairy tales and children’s stories. Alfor was always fond of these stories (and so was Allura, for that matter), and could think of no better creature after which to model the ships made from the comet’s ore.
I had just found some black food coloring today at the store and wanted to try it out and finally be able to make the black lion since it’s so hard to make black with the other colors.
And I also wanted to try my hand at making rice balls so this was a perfect test for it..
I filled the rice ball with shrimp (I know, How typical right? XD ) so it ended up being a sweet n sour shrimp rice ball not sorry! I love sweet n sour shrimp!
I’m not gonna lie, this was challenging. And dying the different colors for and connecting them to the lion was a bit hard. But well worth it! X3
I painted the red parts on with a chopstick and put on seaweed nori for eyes, nose and mouth.
As you can see, I put on the yellow dyed rice on for the glowing eyes. I felt it made this rice all look more accurate.
